WEIRD NATURE
By Anna Fletcher, CNN – Van Zyl’s golden mole. – Van Zyl’s golden mole is an extraordinary creature. It is more closely related to elephants than to the moles you might find in gardens and parks. It has no visible eyes or ears …
By Rich Haridy – To celebrate the coming new year, we have hand-picked a selection of the most spectacular photographs of 2019. This “best of the best” gallery gathers our favorite images from the greatest photo contests of the last twelve months, from head-spinning …
Scientists surprised by haul of crustaceans and tardigrades in undisturbed subglacial lake. Ian Sample Science editor @iansample – Tardigrade, a tiny aquatic invertebrate, is also known as a ‘water bear’. Photograph: Steve Gschmeissner/Getty Images/Science Photo Library. Scientists have found the remains of tiny, …
Merry Christmas, indeed! By Johnathan J. Dalzell – Christmas and mistletoe: Have you ever simply asked yourself … why? I have studied plant parasites like mistletoe for almost 10 years, and I’m here to tell you that the answer is absolutely fascinating. In …
By James Holloway – Andrew Whitworth took the People and Nature award for this remarkable shot of a female three-toed sloth crossing a road. Andrew Whitworth and the British Ecological Society. The British Ecological Society has unveiled the winners of its Capturing Ecology …
Looking for signs of covert nuclear tests, scientists happened upon something rather unexpected instead. By Nina Pullano – Weather. It is the subject that unites us all, a guaranteed conversation-starter, and infamously unpredictable. Every year, meteorologists and news anchors across the United States …
By Rich Haridy – Highlight from the top 50 in Amateur Landscape / Nature category of the 2019 Pano Awards. Zhayynn James. An incredible aerial shot of Iceland’s “braided rivers” has taken first place in the annual Pano Awards, a photography competition dedicated to …
Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more. By Derek Beres – English anatomist John Banester (1533 – 1610) delivers the Visceral Lecture at the Barber-Surgeons’ Hall in London, …
Freeze it, boil it, or expose it to radiation. The water bear shrugs it off. Now we know why. By Philip Perry – Medically accurate model of a tardigrade or water bear. – The tardigrade, also known as the moss piglet or water …
By James Holloway – Traditional chinampas photographed in 1912. Karl Weule. – By 2050, the UN thinks there will be nearly 10 billion people on planet Earth, with 68 percent living in urban areas. Both numbers pose serious questions as to how we’ll feed …
